Society-Page Seduction by Maureen Child

Author:Maureen Child [Child, Maureen]
Language: por
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Silhouette, Dynasties: Ashtons
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2005-02-28T23:00:00+00:00

The next few days rushed past and the end of their first week together was looming. Megan’s nerves were already stretched to their breaking point. She was hardly sleeping anymore. She worked all day at the estate, then came home at night to an empty house.Since that night when they’d shared the bubble bath, the night he’d faced down Spencer at her side, Simon had kept himself at a distance. It was as if he was suddenly regretting their standing together as a team. Regretting making himself into her momentary hero.

He worked late every night and when he did come home and slip into their bed, he kept to his side of the vast mattress—driving her crazier than when he’d been sneaking up on her. He was up with the dawn and out of the house before she’d had her shower.

Megan threw a quick, anxious look at the closed front door, then turned and stalked down the long hallway, her heels clacking on the shining wooden floor.

“And now this.” Her stomach jittered and her mind raced. She’d been thinking all day. Thinking about what she’d seen, what she’d heard and what she’d done. Now, she had to think about how she was going to tell Simon.

“Darn it, he married me to avoid a scandal. Now, he’s going to be dragged through one.” Oh, she didn’t doubt it for a minute. There was no way the Ashton family would be able to bury this one. Sooner or later, the news would leak and then the papers would be all over all of them.

Despite what her mother had tried to do.

“Oh, God.” Megan stopped, rubbed her temples in a pitiful attempt to erase the headache that had been pounding behind her eyes all afternoon. But it wouldn’t go away. Just as the memory of her own mother’s callous cruelty wouldn’t fade.

“Megan?”

She whirled around at the sound of Simon’s voice. While she watched him, he stepped into the house, dropped his leather briefcase and walked toward her. “What’s wrong?”

“Well,” she muttered thickly, “guess I don’t have much of a poker face, do I?”

“Not so much,” he said, one corner of his mouth lifting, then falling again before it could become a real smile. “Tell me.”

Here it was. She’d been waiting for him for what felt like forever and now that the time to talk to him was here, Megan felt her throat close up. She fought past it. “I don’t even know where to start.”

Taking her hand, he pulled her into the living room, off the foyer. The big room was dark and as he entered, he hit the light switch and puddles of golden lamplight spread across the room, chasing the shadows. Big overstuffed couches sat across from each other, with a wide oak coffee table between them. A cobalt-blue vase held a double bunch of white carnations and daisies that Megan had brought home only the day before. And somehow, looking at the simple cheerfulness of that bouquet made Megan feel even worse.

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